Sentence examples for a forbidden pleasure from inspiring English sources

They say it fires up the senses and unleashes a forbidden pleasure, like an alluring but dangerous mistress.

In a region where jaywalking is a forbidden pleasure, this lively public dance, inspired by a change of signage and signals, has created an oxymoron: municipal exhilaration.

Speaking of vices, it was a weekend when the Mestalla scoreboard happily advertised the El Romaní "nightclub", where you can "have a drink and enjoy a forbidden pleasure", but when it was the team that sucked.

There's a forbidden pleasure and complicity in the reading; it's a bit like playing hooky from work just to go window shopping.Ms Brubach's book, by contrast, brings a much higher, more academic tone to its subject, for Ms Brubach has a mission: to her, fashion is "an eloquent and delightful means of expression, and I resolved to persuade the world (especially men) of its validity".

To teach them that these are all forbidden pleasures, Mr. Manley uses an escalating array of pedagogical firepower: yelling, dog assaults, noisy shotgun blanks, shotgun-propelled beanbags and, finally, rubber bullets.

Greuze's The Broken Pitcher, with its pubescent girl holding the eponymous cracked vessel but with one breast bared, so that the viewer may be edified by the spectacle of a fallen child, her virginity ruptured, while at the same time enjoying the forbidden pleasure, is a morally repugnant painting, manipulative and hypocritical.

Kindness, "not sexuality, not violence, not money," is now "our forbidden pleasure," according to Phillips, a psychoanalyst, and Taylor, a historian, because "real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences".

* This is a German phrase that means taking "forbidden" pleasure from the misfortunes of others.

But Bosch, who was born around 1450, also knew about forbidden pleasure.

The forbidden pleasure of cancelling plans at the last minute – like gaining moments of your life back that you'd already written off – has become a popular meme, the 21st-century marker for universality.

This is the Paris of crowds and contrasts, of forbidden pleasure and desperation, of glitter and nerves, of urbanity and poverty.